Savanna Depew awarded Top Student Paper for: Home is where the Work is

Graduate student Savanna Depew, was awarded Top Student Paper by the Western States Communication Association for her submission, “Home is where the Work is: The Role of Businesses in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging for Diasporic Communities.” Depew wrote the paper in Dr. Eric Aoki’s Global Identities class in April of 2018. Depew […]

ACT Next Week and CPD Moving

Folks: Happy Friday. For many of you tomorrow is opening night of the film festival. I am sorry I am not there. I am writing from Montgomery Alabama where I am attending the Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention and doing research on civil rights memory with colleagues and dear friends. More on that in […]

Spring Time

Happy Friday! What a spring week this has been as we return from spring break. Warm. Sunny. Breezy. Now overcast and drizzly. Well, welcome to springtime in the Rockies, yes? Lots of bits and pieces to catch you up on this week. Kari has a new essay out in advanced digital form: Segarra, Ignacio Moreno […]

March Check In

How is one to start a Friday email the day after the terrible shootings in New Zealand? Well, I guess by acknowledging the shootings, but affirming our shared anger and angst caused by the killings. But we should also look clearly at the ways these shootings are of a piece with the (often white) nationalism […]

Welcome to March

Welcome to March! As is the way with March, we open the month with a beautiful morning but will likely go to bed to the beginnings of a solid March snowstorm. Ah Colorado! All sorts of things to talk about this week. Liz has a new essay “Complaints about technology as a resource for identity-work” […]

4th Annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival celebrates human resilience

On Friday, April 5, the 4th annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival returns to Fort Collins for a 9-day run, closing the evening of Saturday, April 13. This year’s festival will open and close at the Lory Student Center Theatre on the campus of Colorado State University with films that celebrate resilience and the human […]

February picking up

Folks: Happy (super cold) Friday. I don’t know how all of you feel about the cold, but I can tell you that Panda would rather it were warmer. Our walks are mercifully short! A couple of notes this week. Katie G has accepted an invitation to be a member of a panel discussing Justice Ginsburg’s […]

2019 Gravlee Lecture explores blogging motherhood and autism

FORT COLLINS, CO — The Department of Communication Studies is pleased to announce this year’s Gravlee Lecturer, Daena J. Goldsmith, professor of rhetoric and media studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The 2019 lecture, titled “Personal and Political: Blogging Motherhood and Autism,” will be held in the Lory Student Center Theater, Wednesday, […]

First day of February

Happy Friday folks, on this first day of February. Amazing, right? January is done. We start the shortest month of the year. The days are getting longer. Hey, cool stuff to share with you this week. Meara just received a $34,000 grant from CSU’s Center for Healthy Aging to promote innovative research on aging and […]